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DONATION TO THE UNIVERSITY.
W. W. Corcoran Esq., of the city of Washington, has made a donation
of $50,000 to the University of Virginia, for the partial endowment
of two professorships.
House Joint Resolution, returning Thanks to W. W. Corcoran, Esq., of
Washington City, for his Munificent Gift to the University of Virginia.
Reported from the Committee on Schools, etc.
The General Assembly of Virginia having heard that W. W. Corcoran Esq., of
Washington city, after many acts of kindness to citizens of the State, and of liberality
to her public institutions, has recently given a large sum to her chief seat of learning,
and having observed with admiration the conduct of one who has shown the capacity
to acquire wealth without injustice, to possess it without ostentation, and to dispense
it with no other object than the benefit of his fellow man, gratefully acknowledge his
right to membership with those whom the Commonwealth has deemed worthy of an enduring
place in her annals as examples to be honored and imitated by her people;
therefore,
Resolved by the House of Delegates (the Senate concurring), That it be entered of
record on the journals of the General Assembly, that W. W. Corcoran, Esq., of the
city of Washington, has entitled himself to the thanks of the Commonwealth by his
munificent gift to the University of Virginia.
Resolved, That his Excellency, the Governor, be requested to transmit to Mr. Corcoran
a copy of this preamble and resolution, engrossed on parchment.
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